[iloveluce]

I hope NSA is doing the same with Russian Cyber Defense systems. This is what NSA should be focused on and not on turning its eavesdropping capabilities towards the homeland.

What if an adversary where to hack the NSA warehouses were all communications swept up by their eavesdropping efforts are stored?

[comicjk]

I've been thinking about writing a spy thriller based on that premise, ever since the Snowden leaks. At this point I'd assign 30% probability that it's already happened.

[kej]

That's part of the plot for Dan Brown's Digital Fortress, although like other Dan Brown books it certainly leaves room for someone else to tell the same story better.

[treme]

what's wrong with ending

every chapter

in a

cliff

?

[Synaesthesia]

Of course they are. They have teams of hackers and security experts working on offensive and defensive cyberwarfare.

Re: Spying on the homeland, governments generally regard the domestic population as a threat and and enemy.

[white-flame]

> This is what NSA should be focused on and not on turning its eavesdropping capabilities towards the homeland.

Spying on Americans traditionally would be done by our allies, so we can trade info with them and have it all be "legal." The NSA is simply optimizing that chain away. :-P

[mtgx]

They've already stolen a bunch of NSA's spying and mass hacking tools, so we're probably years away until stored data is stolen, too, if we'll even find out about it.

[zghst]

For all we know this story could be false. Perhaps this story is to bait them into stealing from the NSA or more.